Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-01-15
FROu WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAzET
Acu1nrcrnN d C. Ian ID ISIS

Libbey and Dezendorf, to the effect that
Gen. Malone is as strong, if not stronger,
with his party at home now than ever, told
the GAZETTE'S correspondent o.day that all
such statements amounted 10 nothing. he
said the idea that Malone was ever really
strong with his party was entirely errone-
GUS and that the success for which he claim
ed and received the credit had always, IN
fact, been won by other people. He men.
toned the campaigns referred to. and
said the men who had managed them were
Rives and Brady, and that the victory last
fall was due chiefly TO the fact that the Gen
eral took little or no part in it, after Games
had beat him in his own home, and John
Wise iu the Richmond district he said
Malone irsulted almost every man in the
party with whom he had any thing to do,
and that when told Of the injury his insults
would intlict upon the party he would rush
to the depot and apologize to the people he
had affroDted. He said also that all the ap-
plause given the General at the party con-
ventions was arranged beforehand, ana told
how and by whom the arrangements were
made. He said that the sum Of $500 was
subscribed by Northern republicans, some
OF them Senators, who wanted 10 defeat
Malone and reputation, and to elect Gen.
the purchase Of the votes of the negro mem
bers of the legislature, and that the money
was given to South Carolina negro named
Raney, to distribute, but that instead Of
spending it as directed, he put it in bis own
rocket and decamped with the entire SUM,
and that as there were left no inducements
sufficient to overcome those Of the General,
the negroes voted Tor and elected him. The
republican referred to says there will be
strong and determined effort in the Cen
erals own party to 'down him" at the next
State convention.
In the House to-day Mr.. Libbey present
ed petition from certain citizens Of lower
Virginia and North Carolina for the relief
of the widows and children of the surlmen
who lost their lives while attempting 10
rescue mariners recently shipwrecked on
Virginia Beach. Mr.. Brady presented a
petition of the Tobacco Association Of Farm.
Vile, Va, for the removal OF the tobacco
tax.
Mr.. Holman has just returned from In
diana. From what he says it is supposed
that in his opinion there is not much chance
of a democratic Senator from his State.
Well informed people from New Jersey say
the legislature of that State will also elect
a republican Senator. In the legislatures
of both these States the democrats had ma
jorities, but by mismanagement have allow
ed the republicans TO euchre them.
At the weekly meeting of the Virginia
democratic association of this city last night
Judge Goolrick, of Fredericksburg, was in
vited 10 address the association next Friday
night, and resolution was adopted endors-
lug the nomination Of Public Printer Bene
diet.
The joint congressional committee on the
celebration Of the centennial of the adop
ton OF the Constitution of the Unitod States,
in this city, determined to-day that there
shall be an address and civic and militia
nv procession on the occasion referred to.
The Senate District committee to-day de-
termined to cali up the bill for reducing the
price Of gas in this city next week. When
that bill shall have passed they will endeav-
or TO have the price of gas il Georgetown
reduced to the same price.
There was no session Of the Senate to day,
that body having adjourned over at half
past eleven o'clock last night, when the
vote OF the interstate commerce bill was
passed, until Monday. On the passage
OF that bill Senator Malone voted 10 the
negative, and Senator Riddleberger, who
was absent, was not paired. The bill was
reported in the House to-day with the
announcement that it would be called upat
an early date. There is no doubt of its pas
sage.
o. E. Bowen, of Mississippi, an employee
of the House, died suddenly this morning at
his home here. He was seventy years OF
age, but was to have been married next
week.
Several of the Virginia congressional
delegation received dispatches yesterday
evening from Virginia newspaper asking
their opinion of the hanging of Cluverius,
but as the man was already hanged and
nothing they could do could help him they
did not respond, thinking the less said about
the matter the better.
F. L. Campbell, son Of VIM. Campbell, the
old sheriff of Page county, Virginia, has
been appointed postal clerk from Baltimore
to Bristol on the Shenandoah Valley Rail
road, vice G. w. Dinges, Mahonete. Of
Shenandoah county, removed.
Among the strangers on the floor OF the
House to-day was ex-representative John
Wise, of Virginia. He was warmly greeted
by not only republicans, but by several of
his democratic friends.
The House Committee on Banking and Curren-
cy, in their recent examination OF the affairs of
the Freedmen Bank, found that the original num-
Der of claimants was 81 600; that 10000 of the
claims were proved that the average amount of
the improved claims was 81, and that in the vast
me- jority of them the amount was under 81.
1t is said in the rooms of the House Judiciary
Committee that there will be no difficulty shout
settling the differences between the Tucker anti
Mormon bill tha has passed the House and the
bill on the same subject that has passed
the Senate, and th&t the bill will soon become a
law.
The reason why objection was made in the
House the other day to the passage Of the bill for
the removal of the political disabilities of B. P.
Loyal, of Virginia, Is that the demand for its
passage was out of order, Friday evening bsing
the regular time for the consideration of all such
bills.
The old McGarraAan claim came up in the
House to-day, it has done st every previous
session OF Congress since 1865, but was again de-
feated.
In the House to-day MI Breckenridge, from
he commerce committee, reported favorably the
bill to abolish certain customs districts, among |
hem the Alexandria, and all other districts in
Virginia except two those of Norfolk and York.
own. 1t went on the calendar to await its turn,
which NAV never come.
Representative R. S. Green, democrat OF New